mary i key dates and statistics Flashcards
(24 cards)
Mary’s reign
1553-1558
How many new battleships?
6
War with France
1557
Loss of Calais
1558
English vs French troops in Calais
E= 2000
F= 27,000
1st Act of Repeal
1553
Heresy Laws
1554
2nd Act of Repeal
1555
Cranmer’s Death
1556
How many Protestants were burned?
280 in 46 months
Book of Rates
1558
Financial impact of the Book of Rates
Trebled income
Money from selling crown lands
£5000 pa in 1554 and £8000 pa in 1557
Money from Acts of Attainder from Northumberland, Wyatt and associates
N= £20,000
W= £18,000
Debt increase- due to war
£180,000 to £300,000
Harvest failures
1555-56
Typhus and Influenza epidemic
1556-58
Death rate from epidemics
1 in 10 dead
Death rate more than doubled
Population rise % fall (1556-61)
5%
Real wages of rural labourers fall
40%
Naval peacetime appropriation
£14,000
Acts passed by parliament
104 acts in 5 sessions
How many new peerages and common seats
4 peerages
19 common seats
How many rebels in Wyatt?
3000